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“Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest. Sorry, brightest,” quipped host Neil Patrick Harris in his opening remarks onstage at the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday night. Harris was poking fun at a perceived lack of diversity surrounding this year’s Oscars, where minority nominees were absent from all four acting categories. But the issue of minority rights did come to the fore after all. “Selma” -- a film about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., -- was among the eight best picture nominees, but its director, Ava DuVernay, was left off the list for director honors. Alejandro G. Inarritu, the...

On an unseasonably warm February afternoon, Rob Corddry sat in the back of a town car wending its way through the streets of Los Angeles. The actor, making the promotional rounds for his new comedy "Hot Tub Time Machine 2," was heading toward an...

It's good to be Katniss Everdeen... and Mystique: Jennifer Lawrence has officially been named this year's most bankable box office star.
The Oscar winner earned Forbes' lofty title of highest-grossing film star of the year thanks to her genre...

Drop, cover and hold on: The first trailer for the earthquake movie "San Andreas" has struck, offering a glimpse of the rampant destruction that director Brad Peyton and leading man Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have in store for the...

I know where you were Friday night. The same place as I was, seated in a movie theater, laughing yourself stupid watching "Dumb and Dumber To." (I saw you. I waved. Repeatedly. Why didn't you wave back?)
I've already seen the movie three times....

Marvel Studios has injected some diversity into its lineup, announcing "Black Panther" and "Captain Marvel" films, its first big-screen superhero projects anchored by a nonwhite actor and a female actor, respectively.
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Daniel Radcliffe just cast another spell on audiences, but this time he did it with his mad rap skills.
The "Harry Potter" alum, goaded by host Jimmy Fallon, performed Blackalicious' complex "Alphabet Aerobics" on "The Tonight...

It was a setting up to be a relatively routine edition of WWE's "Monday Night Raw" on, um, Monday, when Rusev, the hated wrestler from Russia, came to the ring with his manager, Lana. The crowd booed as Rusev said wrestler The Big Show was...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is ready to take back the beach. The WWE wrestler turned Hollywood actor has his eyes on an upcoming movie adaptation of "Baywatch," the schlocky 1990s TV series about a team of lifeguards keeping the shores...

"Fast & Furious 7" is getting all fancy on us.
The next installment of Universal's automotive action franchise will feature an appearance by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, whose electro-dusted single "Fancy" has been an...